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In October 2001, ITV had a major problem. Fewer and fewer people were watching prime-time TV on a Saturday evening. They had even moved Des Lynam into the 7 o’clock slot with The Premiership, but to no avail. Ratings were below 30%, and they were getting soundly beaten by the BBC. They were losing advertising…

Just over two months ago I started reading the book of Esther in my own quiet times. It was a fantastic time. I loved the book, and I had a wonderful commentary to help me which I’ll tell you about later. As I progressed through this brief Old Testament book, I was challenged, uplifted, taught, and left…

Have you ever watched a film, or read a book, and enjoyed it so much, that you’ve read it again? If it’s a good book, then often it will seem to be different the second time. For example, if you reread Lord of the Rings, knowing who will be crowned King in book three, it changes how you view the story…

It’s the trend for companies nowadays to have slogans, that try and sum up what they stand for. So some of you will remember ‘Your flexible friend’. Those of you with pets might think that ‘Cat’s like Felix, like Felix’. And do remember slogans like ‘Don’t just book it, Thomas Cook it’?, and ‘It’s good…

Do you remember I said I was never sure if Saul was a good guy or a bad guy? Well, most of the time, Saul is a bad guy. So as we look at Saul this morning, he will be an example to us, but this time we’re going to say Don’t be like Saul. In 1 Sam 11, do you remember that Saul acted urgently to an urgent…

Saul is famous for all the wrong reasons, and whenever you read his story you’re never quite sure whether he was a good guy or a bad guy. I like that, you know. I often get the feeling that if anyone was to bother looking back at my life a hundred years from now, they wouldn’t be able to work out whether…

I’m a great Tolkien fan, and have read Lord of the Rings several times, and seen both the films. I loved the second film as I followed the story through all the twists and turns as the various groups wind their way to Mordor, I was with them every step of the way. But a friend of mine who’d never read…

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s something you’ve heard often, something maybe you’ve said yourself. I wonder if you’ve ever been as desperate as Saul was here in 1 Sam 28? Tonight’s message is going to be perhaps the most simple of the six that I preach to you. I’m going to give you…

The passage we’ve read together today is a thrilling story. I hope you saw that as we read together. It starts with Saul, the king of Israel sitting under a tree whilst his tiny army sat around him. The Philistine army was running riot, you can see from 1Sam 13:17 that they had raiding parties unopposed.…